Tanzania's Tundu Lissu: Surviving an assassination attempt to run …
WEBAt the end of September, Mr Lissu was summoned to the electoral commission's ethics committee after reportedly saying that President Magufuli was colluding with election officials to rig the...
Tanzania’s Opposition Leader was Shot 16 Times. Now He’s ... - VICE
WEBOct 15, 2020 · On the 3rd of October, the National Electoral Commission’s Ethics Committee suspended Lissu from campaigning for seven days for election ethic violations on seditious remarks he made suggesting...
A Tanzanian opposition leader was arrested briefly amid human …
WEBSep 11, 2023 · NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s opposition leader Tundu Lissu was arrested and later released on bail by the police who accused him of unlawful assembly and obstructing police officers. Lissu was barred from attending a human rights rally Sunday in Ngorongoro, in the north of the country.
Interview: Tundu Lissu Discusses the Need for Constitutional …
WEBFollowing the death of Tanzania’s authoritarian President John Magufuli, an avowed COVID-19 skeptic who likely died of the disease, Lissu plans to return to Tanzania to fight for democratic...
Tanzania’s Top Opposition Figure Returns From Exile - The New York Times
WEBJan 25, 2023 · Tundu Lissu, a former presidential candidate, left in 2020 after he was harassed on the campaign trail. He flew home after the country’s leader lifted a ban on political rallies.
Tanzania's Tundu Lissu: Surviving an assassination attempt to run …
WEBOct 22, 2020 · Tanzania's Tundu Lissu, who was shot in 2017, hopes to unseat President John Magufuli.
Tundu Lissu: Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan names …
WEBAug 26, 2024 · The new Tundu Lissu pictured during a quiet moment Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has named a "troublesome" lion after one of the country's opposition leaders.
Tanzania's Tundu Lissu: jailed, shot and exiled, but unbowed
WEBJan 25, 2023 · A fiercely outspoken critic of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party, Lissu was last in Tanzania in 2020 to contest the October election against Magufuli, who died just five months after...
Tundu Lissu's return prompts first opposition rallies for seven …
WEBFeb 1, 2023 · The opposition Chadema party celebrated Tundu Lissu's return to Tanzania after five years in effective exile in Belgium with its first mass campaign rally since 2016, weeks after President Samia Suluhu Hassan lifted the ban on political gatherings, imposed by her predecessor John Magufuli in 2016 (Dispatches 21/3/22, …
Tanzania: Tundu Lissu returns home after years in exile
WEBJan 25, 2023 · Tanzanian opposition stalwart Tundu Lissu has been arrested countless times, pumped full of bullets in an assassination attempt and lived largely in exile for more than five years.
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